Since she was first elected in 2019, major crime rose by a staggering 70 percent in her Bronx \/ Queens district.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe 110th Precinct in Queens, which covers part of the infamous \u2018Market of Sweethearts\u2019 human-trafficking and prostitution mecca on Roosevelt Avenue, saw a 105% surge, the highest increase of any NYC precinct in that period,\u201d The Post said in its report.<\/p>\n
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\u201cMajor crimes consist of murder, rape, robbery, felony assault, burglary, grand larceny and auto theft,\u201d the outlet continued.<\/p>\n
The 115th<\/sup>\u00a0precinct, which is also in the representative\u2019s district, saw a whopping increase of 85 percent in major crimes, and her constituents are frustrated with their celebrity representative.<\/p>\nAdvertisement<\/p>\n
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\u201cShe\u2019s not doing s\u2013t. She doesn\u2019t live in the neighborhood, she doesn\u2019t care,\u201d Elmhurst resident Guadelupe Alvarez, a former supporter of Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, said to The Post.<\/p>\n
Alvarez said she used to have dreams of building a life in the community, but those days are over.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t wait to get \u2013 pardon my language \u2013 the f\u2013k out of here. It makes me so sad that they\u2019ve done that to push me out of my neighborhood. And I\u2019m not the only one. . . . I could never have a family here,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
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She told The Post that she attempted to talk to the representative about the issue at a town hall last year, but it did not go as planned.<\/p>\n
\u201cI asked, \u2018Are you aware of how horrible it\u2019s gotten? When was the last time you were in Jackson Heights, Elmhurst?\u2019 She ignored me and told me, \u2018You can ask this person questions\u2019 \u2026 who I guess was her assistant. She did a very silent exit through the back,\u201d Alvarez said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s disrespectful. You\u2019re there because of people from my community, and you\u2019re not doing s\u2013t for our community,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Republican City Council candidate Ramses Frias also shredded the representative when he spoke to The Post.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have a mouth to speak up. People are suffering. They\u2019re scared to go outside,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
And her rhetoric on race and defunding the police has also had an effect on her district.<\/p>\n
\u201cNobody wants to be a police officer, it\u2019s been so villainized,\u201d said Manhattan Institute \u00a0Director of Policing and Public Safety, Hannah Meyers, said. \u201cAnd that affects every function that the police do.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt\u2019s her district, she\u2019s supposed to be looking out for people there. She has such a myopic focus on race,\u201d she said, pointing to the fact that most of the victims of crime in her district are black or Hispanic. \u201cYou\u2019re not helping the victims of crime by talking about how the system is racist.<\/p>\n
\u201cRhetoric is really powerful,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
In June 2020, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez declared, \u201cDefunding police means defunding police,\u201d and she has since continued that rhetoric, saying in 2022 that \u201cpolice budgets have nothing to do with crime levels.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe talks about the whole fighting the oligarchy, and that\u2019s what she\u2019s all about \u2013 the poor people. And yet most people in her district are fearful, they don\u2019t feel like they can walk out the door without encountering a drug dealer or a purse snatcher or a hooker,\u201d National Police Association\u2019s Betsy Brantner Smith said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd that goes against everything that you know she stands for. If you don\u2019t feel safe, you\u2019re not free,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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